Research into the history of Football in Falkirk district : mainly concentrating on the the period up to 1945 I like to dig through the newspapers from the days of yore to find little vignettes that were rarely included in the published histories.
From the ugly side to the downright obscure, just don't expect me to write about anything too obvious ....

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Thomas Ferguson = Falkirk FC

I get a bit bored of 'alleged' reference books which contintue to state that Geordie Watson has made the most appearances for my beloved Falkirk FC [even though they cover their behinds with the boring [post war] bit]. In my humble opinion, if you want to be known as a source you ought research your stuff before proclaiming facts [however skewed]. To this point, I'd like to promote a too often forgotten chap from Longcroft who was almost omnipresent 'between the sticks' throughought an entire decade, and by this I don't mean ten years, I mean the twenties....

Season

Lea

SCu

Min

Oth

Tot

1918/19

-

-

-

2

2

1919/20

41

1

3

2

47

1920/21

36

4

4

1

45

1921/22

40

2

-

5

47

1922/23

38

3

6

4

51

1923/24

38

6

3

4

51

1924/25

38

4

4

-

46

1925/26

38

3

2

-

43

1926/27

37

6

6

3

52

1927/28

38

4

5

1

48

1928/29

38

3

4

2

47

1929/30

37

8

3

2

50

1930/31

27

3

7

-

37

1931/32

5

-

-

-

5

Total

451

47

47

26

571

The above, except for League & Cup matches, is but a minimum, Tommy may have played more [but I doubt as many as 600!].

Apart from a little time with Bedlay Juniors before Falkirk FC snapped him up, Tommy played his entire club career at Falkirk, except for accepting the challenge of guesting with Third Lanark on their tour of Argentina/Uruguay in 1923 [sadly it is slightly difficult finding accurate details of those matches]. Thomas died in South Africa in June 1955, clearly a well travelled man.